stoker
\stɔ.kœʁ\
The verdict
“stoker” is uncommon French (frequency #62,647 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,647
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif servant à approvisionner automatiquement en charbon, depuis le tender, une locomotive à vapeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stoker · stoker · French
stoker · rank #62,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,647
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH squares
Nearest frequency peer: squares (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « stoker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spectrales
spectrales
37,357 corpus weight
- Spitzberg
Spitzberg
37,356 corpus weight
- squares
squares
37,355 corpus weight
- stoker
stoker
37,354 corpus weight
- strontium
strontium
37,353 corpus weight
- structurali…
structuralisme
37,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stoker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stoker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stɔ.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stoker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stoker is uncommon French at frequency #62,647 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stɔ.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dispositif servant à approvisionner automatiquement en charbon, depuis le tender, une locomotive à vapeur.".
stoker doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is stoker, spelled S-T-O-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dispositif servant à approvisionner automatiquement en charbon, depuis le tender, une locomotive à vapeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stoker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[La 240P] bénéficiait surtout de la charge mécanique communément appelée chauffe au « stoker ». Une vis sans fin partant du fond du tender amenait directement le charbon sur la table d’entrée du foyer où il était cueilli par un jet de vapeur qui le projetait sur toute la longueur du feu où il brûlait avant même de tomber sur la grille.
Il ne faut pas non plus oublier la vis sans fin du stoker. C’est elle qui apporte le charbon du tender vers le foyer de la machine grâce à un moteur à vapeur dans le tender.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).